Comments on: Will Plug-in Hybrids Help Obama in Copenhagen?

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By: Dom

Dom — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:47:00 +0000

Right, and in Europe they are not scrambling to replace their cars with hybrids, EVs, or plug-ins… they drive smaller cars, and about half of them have small efficient and powerful clean diesel engines… hmm…
The government needs to quit pushing one technology and instead encourage all technologies that contribute to more efficiency.

By: veek

veek — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:51:54 +0000

The Gigaton Throwdown report seems to emphasize major doses of competent Big Government and Big Corporations to solve climate problems caused by automobiles, and this currently seems unrealistic in the US (but there are still plenty of things individuals can do). The Europeans seem to have had greater success in evolving with the automobile, and perhaps Americans should humbly examine how they have done this-- even given the differences in cultures. Indeed, European automobiles and driving conditions compare favorably with those in the US, so this may not even involve too much sacrifice.

America has the knowledge and capability to make many positive contributions, but that potential has been severely compromised over the last 17 years by the predeliction of its voters for divisive and polarizing political leaders

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:28:47 +0000

U.S. cars consume twice as much fuel as European and Japanese cars.
The average in the U.S. market stands at 22.6 mpg, compared with 40.3 mpg in Europe and 40.6 mpg in Japan.

By: DDHv

DDHv — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:21:14 +0000

We’ve been concentrating on things to improve the situation which we can do ourselves. Once these run out, will be time to ask for help. To be exact, we ask two questions: 1) Is this the alternative with the best payback %, and 2) Will it pay back at least as much as an average stock investment (about 10%). Given both of these, we work on it. We’d be putting in solar hot water, except for the problem of getting a plumber here – we’ve only been trying for two years now.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:23:42 +0000

Save the greenbacks and the environment without government involvement. GOVERNMENT solves everything by taking your money and saying they know better than you to fix everything.

By: DC

DC — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:11:53 +0000

Why would plug-in hybrids help Obama? The only way to solve the liquid fuel problem, and the looming energy problem is to actually begin DOING something about these problems, not talking about them endlessly. Or even worse, declaring vague ill-defined 'solutions's that in reality are not really being worked on except in press releases. Simply declaring something like PHEV or even worse, hoaxes like ethanol or H2 will save the day for america, is wishful thinking at best and misleading at worst. What is interesting about all this is that European cars are on average almost twice as efficent as N.A. ones. While Europe actually has a network of fast-high tech passengar rail systems, the US lamey can only commit to "study" the issue. Its clear the US remains commited to more cars, more roads, more suburban sprawl, more resource wars, while many of its corprate and goverment elites continue to suppress and hinder technologies that would allow for meaningful progress to be made. As long as this situation persists, it wont matter if the US has 1 million or 10 million PHEV's helping to keep the americans decrepit road system in gridlock.

q/According to the administration, a big chunk of the reductions will come from improving vehicle fuel efficiency.q

This line shows the americans are not serious -period. The only way to reduce vehcile emissions is NOT to make the existing ones marginally more efficent. The only way to reduce vehicle pollution is fewer cars, less driveing, and replacing the ICE vehicles that do remain with EV's as quickly as is practical. Of course, if we wait till 2040 or 50, which no doubt is a plan every oil company on earth can get behind, we wont have to worry about converting fleets any longer since we most likely wont have the energy to build powered vehicles of any kind by that point.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:38:51 +0000

I have a proposal. Let’s establish a federal floor price on gasoline of $2 per gallon. If the price of gas goes below that the difference will be distributed by the government as a tax exemption to pay for purchasing an electric or plug in hybrid car. It would be something concrete that we could do right now and will become more effective with time as demand for gasoline decreases and the number of electric vehicles increase. Not a gas tax but functions similarly.